white house correspondent hallie jackson and msnbc contributor obama twice in robeson county, and chief white house correspondent for "the new york the rural part of the district, times" peter baker. peter was the first to break the and fell out of the democratic coalition in 2016. story today about the white house's direct involvement in as far as his rally goes, i think the most curious -- the repudiating noaa for contradicting the president. most interesting part of it is not the timing but rather the peter, i'm doing something i don't normally do. i like to start with my team. location. the bulk of votes in north no offense, but you got this story here. carolina nine is in the you heard the president call it charlotte metro area. instead he went to fayetteville fake news. tell me about your story. which clearly was designed to >> well, look, you know, we saw gin up republican. that there as opposed to riling this rather extraordinary up the democratic vote in statement released by noaa last charlotte. what we learned yesterday -- friday. five days after the birmingham >> wow. trump was even strategic. weather forecasters said the president was wrong. that's rare on that stuff. the idea of the statement -- >> that's not rocket science, didn't seem like it could have chuck. but what we learned from 2018 is come out of nowhere. obviously it didn't. what happened was the president apparently was telling his staff that they needed to clarify his popularity with his own base is not necessarily transferrable this. that he was right in the end, to down-ballot republican and they needed to get fiscal cliffed with noaa. politicians like bishop. that's -- nalley valleyed with and that's part of the reason noaa. why bishop, who is, you know, a that's what led milk mulvaney to member of the republican call the -- milk mulvaney to political establishment that some of the trump base doesn't call noaa and the weather like, underperformed trump by ten points. service. the commercial secretary ross >> all right. calls neil jacobs, he's the head